On Sep 2, 2009, at 11:48 AM, r wrote:
On Sep 2, 10:31 am, JonathanB <doulo...@gmail.com> wrote:
I am a self-taught Python programmer with a liberal arts degree
(Cross-
cultural studies). I have been programming for several years now and
would like to get a job as a python programmer. Unfortunately most of
the job posts I have seen are for CS Majors or people with
experience.
Is there a place I can look for job posts for entry level positions
requiring no experience? For the hiring managers, if the job post
said
"CS Major" in the requirements, would you consider a liberal arts
major at all?
Have you thought about getting involved with the Python core
development. Not a paying position, but may lead you to some good
connections, and i can't think of a better place to prove yourself
than that ;-)
Or instead of diving into the Python core which might be pretty heavy
stuff, create some open source code -- a game, a calculator, a music
generator, an app to automatically download weather maps, etc.
Whatever tickles your fancy. If you're willing to stand on your merits
(and it sounds like you are), you can point people to where your code
is hosted and say, "I wrote that".
Anyway, it's something to do in between hitting refresh on
http://www.python.org/community/jobs/
Good luck to you
Philip
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